My Trip to Houston Texas & Life Lesson 1

In this post, I would like to take myself to when I was in one of the journey I have made during my young adult time. I was just around 23 years old, female, and that was my first time travelling so far away from home. It is exactly 15,921 km distance between where I left my family and friends to the destination. It was my very first experience catching a flight, making a long journey. I have never felt so excited and scared at the same time, before. The travel that requires me to be away for almost 10 weeks at a place where I have never been to, seems difficult for me to unravel.

I've met some companions along my journey during the transit in Doha International Airport, which happen to be my future colleagues, at that time. There are six of us, all coming from Asia, travelling to Houston, Texas, USA. We are supposed to be trained as an offshore personnel working as Field Geophysicist on-board any fleet that we will be assigned to.

Upon reaching Houston, it was still winter and the weather is nothing compared to where I was from. February temperature in that part of the world is so cold and humid to my Asian body type. I remember being fetched by our supervisor and he took us to Alta Royal Oaks Apartment where we had stayed for 2 months.

The total travelling time was exactly 23 hours and at that moment, I haven't realized that I will have more of this kind of journey as I have ventured into being an International Traveler for another 3 to 4 years. There I was attending class during my 8 to 5 working hours at the office. Learning, studying and preparing for the cause. While at the same time, socializing with all good people around me. It wasn't hard, but it was also not an easy one either. 

This life changing experience that I had really had brought me into being such an open minded person. I remember how I always felt like being sent away alone that had kept me in between the positive and the negative arguments between my-old-self and everything with it against my-new-self and also everything that comes with it. To keep them in balance, to really make sure that I will not let myself astray is definitely not an effortless task. 

I would have listed down all the arguments that I had, the challenges I have faced, and all the happiness, regrets that I may have also had, but I would rather not. Hence, I had chosen to cherish all the good and positive outcome from it and learn from the past experience which I know that was what had brought me to where I am right now. Life lesson no. 1 that I could point out from this life adventure that I had and of course there should be more to it, but this gem that I have kept as my principle is this;

"A failure is not a loss. It's a gain. You learn. You change. You grow. - Anonymous"

It is true enough that I have never scared to make mistakes. Because I know that there are so much that I could learn from it, I will change and I will always grow.

2019 Bucket List Checked

To continue this blog after such a long time.. To have the liberty to access to this account again after such trials.. I am so grateful..

I've read all of my previous post, almost got me to re-write everything and amend some of the posts but I'm letting my past pass through this.. A little bit about myself after almost a decade missing.. 

Well, now I am a mother (to my precious son), a wife (to my very supportive reader, of course), a daughter, a sister and a friend to those wonderful people around me. I have always believed that I have gone through a lot in this life and never tired of getting more of it. I love travel, in fact, that is my dream, to travel without limit, and carefree, discover new places, exploring every corner of the earth, whether it's flat or round I’m sure at some point I’ll landed where it should be. I am an easy going person, love to make friends and sometime choosy at it as I believe there are a lot of fake people in this world.

Why do I ever think of starting to write - again?

It has started almost 10 years from the day I wrote this, I had always travelled and alone in the other part of the world. My interest to write, to share the stories has never been growing larger than ever. There are so much that I’m thinking of, that I want to share with the world. Some stories are great ones to share, while some stories are not but for the benefit of life experiences. Some were for my pasts and some were for my future. I have been keeping this interest of mine in that bucket list long enough that I feel like bursting, hence back to this nostalgic platform. I hope it is the right decision for me to do so. I have a dream that one day I want to put this life story of mine in a book. Because I know I have gone through that “Bilbo Baggins’ @hobbits adventure” of mine last few years and that’s what have become who I am now and me willing to pursue for far more challenging life ahead, I have to keep writing. That’s what I kept telling myself and here I am..